... for the engraver or lithographer, to save them unnecessary errors, at the same time marking the proofs for the new impression of my large collected edition of the piano sonatas of Beethoven (4 volumes). But now we are really at the end with our ...

... have pressed on as far as the modal-mixture rows. We work slowly, without rushing things, and solidly, very solidly! Because it is carnival season, the performance of my sonata has been delayed. It will probably take place after Ash Wednesday. The ...

... are preserved at the Brahms Institute of the State Music Conservatory in Lübeck. und Th. KaufmannTheodor Kaufmann (1892–1972) was a Hamburg-based pianist, teacher and composer, who had studied with Busoni in Berlin. His Piano Sonata No. 1, a large and ...

... might perhaps in six months' time amount to a week's wages for a barber's apprentice or the like. (You yourself chose to postpone the collected edition of the Beethoven sonatas for exactly this reason.) In all probability, for my own part I would have to ...

... own education and assessment, because that symphony is for me the most alien, the inimical one among Beethoven's symphonies. I received the piano sonatas, four volumes, and very much thank you that you arranged for this valuable gift to be sent to me ...

... DirigentenThis is almost certainly Wilhelm Furtwängler. Schenker first met him nine years before, in 1919; his diary entries record Furtwängler’s championing of the music of Richard Strauss and Bruckner, and his “ignorance of sonata form” (see Federhofer ...

... a concert at the Dresden Court Theatre and written off in a Viennese newspaper review; but it seems never to have appeared in print. Times were better … For you, this may be more important: the Sonata Op. 22 was first published by Hoffmeister, as I ...

... concert in Vienna for which he is said to have had very good reviews. He came to your works only later, and in fact by way of the Elucidatory Editions of the Last Five Sonatas of Beethoven, where you do always cite your other works. He ordered them one by ...

... be so unpianistic!). In the conservatory I'm doing the E minor Violin Sonata by Mozart (with performance included) and that also provides occasion for much of the same. Last Monday Furtwängler (after a unique performance of Schubert's Symphony in C ...

... here is for music dealers to send new publications to the homes of more well-known people on approval ‒ I believe that there would be many possibilities for such a thing. I think, in a given volume either a larger work or two smaller sonatas, or several ...